Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 14

The Convention on the Enforcement of Judgments concluded with certain governments of Arab States. Its implementation is mandatory among all States that signed it and States acceding to them subsequently. It is deemed part of the domestic laws of each and is enforceable. Accession by the State of Kuwait to this Convention and, at a later date, by the State of the Emirates, in which the judgment sought to be endorsed with the executory formula was rendered. Its effect. - Fulfilment by the foreign judgment of the conditions required by Article 199 of the Procedures Law and the Convention on the Enforcement of Judgments, and accession by the other State to the same Convention. Its effect. An order for its enforcement in the State of Kuwait is mandatory. This is not altered by raising the issue of the jurisdiction of the court that rendered the foreign judgment and jurisdiction being vested in the courts of the State of Kuwait as the court of the 2 defendants’ domicile, where the headquarters of the company against which judgment was rendered jointly and severally with them is located. The reason therefor. The determining factor for international jurisdiction is the law of the country in which the judgment sought to be enforced was rendered.